Answers next week, no cheating. If you Google the answers don't post. 1) Which is the only team still playing in one of the top 4 English Football divisions to have won the FA cup in 3 consecutive seasons? 2) In which city was footballer Eric Cantona born? 3) By unit sales, what is the best-selling musical instrument in the world? 4) Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest.True or false? 5) The young of which bird are always brought up by foster parents? 6) Which legendary ghost ship is the title of an opera by Wagner? 7) Which movie legend coined the phrase 'the true king of pop, rock and soul' when presenting an award to Michael Jackson in 1989? 8) What railway station should have been the final destination of the train involved in the Great Train Robbery of 1963? 9) Which country, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones in the world? 10) Which is the only planet to spin clockwise? 11) Jazz club founder Ronnie Scott is most associated with which instrument? 12) Bill Hickok is the principal male in which musical? 13) Where is the largest naval dockyard in the United States, and the world? 14) What is the chemical symbol for gold? 15) What does the phrase 'Auld lang syne' refer to? 16) With which London theatre is Shakespeare most associated? 17) Which is the 3rd largest populated democratic country in the world? 18) What was the first name of the fictional pilot known as Biggles? 19) What country is the largest exporter of grapes in the world? 20) Solsbury Hill, a song by Peter Gabriel, is located in which English county?
1) 2) Marseille 3) 4) True 5) Cuckoo 6) Mary Celeste 7) 8) 9) France 10) 11) Saxophone 12) 13) Norfolk, Virginia 14) Au 15) 16) The Globe 17) 18) 19) 20)
1. Blackburn 2. Marseille 3. Recorder 4. True, I’m going because of somewhere in the World is higher than Mount Everest & there’s bees there, but they couldn’t actually physically fly above Mount Everest. 5. Cuckoo 6. 7. Clint Eastwood 8. Kings Cross 9. Russia 10. Neptune 11. Sax 12. Barnum 13. Hawaii 14. Au 15. Old year ends 16. The Globe 17. Brazil 18. Rupert 19. Spain 20. Kent
a fair bit of guesswork follows. 1) Blackburn Rovers 2) Strasbourg 3) Recorder 4) True 5) Cuckoo 6) Flying Dutchman 7) 8) London Euston 9) France 10) Venus 11) Saxophone 12) Calamity Jane 13) Ulsan, South Korea 14) Au 15) 16) The Globe 17) USA 18) James 19) Chile 20) Somerset
I didn't read question 13 correctly. Newport News is (I think) the largest dockyard in the USA. Ulsan is the largest in the world.
